Job 29:16 · JPS 1917

I was a father to the needy; and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

Who acts: I, cause · What happens: be, not know, search out, cause · To what, where: father, tongue

This is Job 29:16 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, cause), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 father	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 father	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 father	det
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 needy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 needy	det
7	needy	needy	ADJ	_	4 father	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 searched	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 searched	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cause	det
11	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 searched	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cause	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 knew	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 him	acl:relcl
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 knew	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 searched	nsubj
19	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 father	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 searched	compound:prt
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	a father	to the needy	tree rules
2	not know	past	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	search out	past	the cause of tongue			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	cause			tongue		nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The Hebrew of this verse

אָ֣ב אָ֭נֹכִֽי לָֽאֶבְיוֹנִ֑ים וְרִ֖ב לֹא־יָדַ֣עְתִּי אֶחְקְרֵֽהוּ׃

Job 29:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOB:739 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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